Franklin D. Richards, Diary, extracts, 1888-1889

File — Box: 4, Folder: 2

Identifier: I

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

"While looking at Professor Alexander Winchell's book Adamites and pre-Adamites, the spirit showed me that if the doctrine of the prophet Joseph [Smith] were accepted, viz., that the earth is composed of parts or fragments of other earths--various different problems would become easy of solution--viz., different occurrences of races different geological periods of time. Existence of pre-Adamites. It would account for finding bones of mammoth [and] mastodon so great depth below the surface or human skeletons either, or any other marks of civilization."

Dates

1888-1889

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